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Course Management : iDLearnMAN
Overview:
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A full teacher has full
control over all settings for a course, including
restricting other teachers.
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Choice of course formats
such as by week, by topic or a discussion-focussed
social format.
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Course Themes are
available and a course can have its own theme of colours
and layout.
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A flexible array of course
activities can be offered such as Forums, Quizzes,
Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, and
Workshops.
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Groups - teacher(s) and
trainees can be placed in one or more groups.
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Recent changes to the
course since the last login can be displayed on the
course home page which helps give sense of community.
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Most text entry areas
(resources, forum postings etc.) can be edited using an
embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor.
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All grades for Forums,
Quizzes and Assignments can be viewed on one page (and
downloaded as a spreadsheet file).
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Full user logging and
tracking is available.
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Activity reports for each
trainee are available with graphs and details about each
course (last access, number of times read) as well as a
detailed "story" of each trainee’s involvement including
postings etc. on one page.
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Mail integration offers
copies of forum posts, teacher feedback etc. can be
mailed in HTML or plain text.
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Custom scales allow
teachers to define their own scales to be used for
grading forums and assignments.
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Courses can be packaged as
a single zip file using the Backup function.
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Lesson Module:
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A lesson is a series of
pages which can be presented in a linear fashion, like a
slide show, or in a non-linear, branching manner, or in
a combination of the two.
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Navigation through the
lesson can be straight forward or complex, logical or
random.
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Pages have a content area
for questions or explanations, with a HTML set of tools.
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Pages can allow trainees
to make choices by their answers to questions or by
selecting a button with a description.
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Each choice can be
associated with jumps that link to other lesson pages
and can be scored.
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Offers different scoring
and grading potentials.
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Interfaces with Grade and
Glossary modules.
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Lessons can build upon
each other through conditional dependencies upon one
another.
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Question pages include
Multiple choice, Multi-answer, T/F, numeric, short
answer and essay.
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Pages can be created one
at a time or imported in variety of formats.
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Trainee attempts, time
limits, minimum score and retakes can be set.
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Trainees may see progress
bars, running score, reinforcement to trainee questions.
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Password, start and end
times, and other restrictions can be placed on trainees.
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Quiz Module:
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Teachers can define a
database of questions for re-use in different quizzes.
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Questions can be stored in
categories for easy access, and these can be "published"
to make them accessible from any course on the site.
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Quizzes are automatically
graded, and can be re-graded if questions are modified.
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Quizzes can have a limited
time window outside of which they are not available.
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At the teacher's option,
quizzes can be attempted multiple times, and can show
feedback and/or correct answers.
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Quiz questions and quiz
answers can be shuffled (randomised) to reduce cheating.
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Questions allow HTML and
images.
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Questions can be imported
from external text files.
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Quizzes can be attempted
multiple times, if desired.
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Attempts can be
cumulative, if desired, and finished over several
sessions.
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Multiple-choice questions
supporting single or multiple answers.
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Short Answer questions
(words or phrases).
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True-False / Matching /
Random / Numerical questions
(with allowable ranges).
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Embedded-answer questions
(cloze style) with answers within passages of text.
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Embedded descriptive text
and graphics.
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Assignments can be
specified with a due date and a maximum grade.
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Trainees can upload their
assignments in any file format to the server and they
are date-stamped.
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Late assignments are
allowed, but the amount of lateness is shown clearly to
the teacher.
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For each particular
assignment, the whole group can be assessed (grade and
comment) on one page in one form.
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Teacher feedback is
appended to the assignment page for each trainee, and
notification is mailed out.
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The teacher can choose to
allow resubmission of assignments after grading (for
regrading).
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Allowing resubmissions can
allow the teacher to progress monitor trainee
projects/assignments as they evolve.
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Advanced assignments can
allow multiple files to be uploaded. This could keep
together pre-planning maps and presentations.
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Chat Module:
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Allows smooth, synchronous
text interaction and includes profile pictures in the
chat window.
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Supports URLs, smilies,
embedded HTML, images etc.
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All sessions are logged
for later viewing, and these can also be made available
to trainees.
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Forum Module:
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Different types of forums
are available, such as teacher-only, course news,
open-to-all, and one-thread-per-user.
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All postings have the
author’s photo attached.
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Discussions can be viewed
nested, flat or threaded, oldest or newest first.
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Forums can be subscribed
to by each person so that copies are forwarded via
email, or the teacher can force subscription for all.
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The teacher can choose not
to allow replies.
(e.g. for an announcements-only forum.)
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Discussion threads can be
easily moved between forums by the teacher.
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Attached images are shown
inline.
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If forum ratings are being
used, these can be restricted to a range of dates.
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Survey Module:
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Built-in surveys have been
proven as instruments for analysing online classes.
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Online survey reports
always available, including many graphs.
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Data is downloadable as an
Excel spreadsheet or CSV text file.
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Survey interface prevents
partly-finished surveys.
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Feedback is provided to
the trainee of their results compared to the class
averages.
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Choice Module:
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Like a poll, the Choice
Module can either be used to vote on something, or to
get feedback from every trainee.
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Teacher sees intuitive
table view of who chose what and trainees can optionally
be allowed to see an up-to-date graph of results.
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Workshop Module:
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Allows peer assessment of
documents, and the teacher can manage and grade the
assessment.
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Supports a wide range of
possible grading scales.
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Teacher can provide sample
documents for trainees to practice grading.
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Very flexible with many
options and can be modified to suit your needs.
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Resource Module:
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Supports display of any
electronic content, Word, PowerPoint, Flash, Video,
Sound etc. that are stored locally, or remotely.
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Files can be uploaded and
managed
(zipped, unzipped, renamed, moved, etc.) on the server.
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Folders can be created and
managed on the server and linked to.
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Internal web pages (html
formatted) can be created with WYSIWYG editor and linked
to.
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Internal text pages (no
formatting) can be created and linked to.
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External content on the
web can be linked to or seamlessly included within the
course interface.
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External web applications
can be linked to with data passed to them.
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Linked MP3 audio files
will display with elegant flash player.
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Glossary Module:
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This is one of the modules
that best illustrates the way the site can fundamentally
improve the experience of a traditional classroom.
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When trainees contribute
to a course in a public place like the glossary, their
ideas are given weight and attention and often result in
a greater pride or ownership of the assignment.
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Allows participants to
create and maintain a list of definitions, like a
dictionary.
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Trainee entries can be
previewed by instructors before publishing.
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Entries can be searched or
browsed using alphabet, category, date, and author.
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A glossary of terms can be
easily referenced by trainees.
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Almost any module of the
site can be set to hyperlink automatically to any word
or phrase that is stored in or added to the glossary.
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Glossary items can be
grouped in categories.
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Participants can comment
on glossary entries.
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Entries can be rated using
teacher-defined scales.
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Glossaries can be easily
exported and imported via xml.
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Glossaries can be fully
searched.
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Glossaries can be viewed
with different display formats.
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WIKI Module:
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Wiki is a web page that
anyone can add to or edit.
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It enables documents to be
authored collectively and supports collaborative
learning.
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Old versions are not
deleted and may be restored if required.
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